DC goes full body horror, and the Kulture Meltdown asks whether a superhero movie can ever go far enough. Clayface (2026), directed by James Watkins from a Mike Flanagan story, follows Matt Hagen (Tom Rhys Harries), a rising Gotham actor whose ruined face is rebuilt by an experimental treatment that won't hold. Is it baby's first body horror next to The Fly, Videodrome and The Substance? What was lost when Flanagan's script went to another writer and another director? Did this story need a whole movie, or fifteen minutes at the top of a Batman film? The talk also takes in the movie's place in James Gunn's DCU, word that Clayface was once headed for The Batman Part II, Werewolf by Night getting dumped on streaming, the Zack Snyder fan wars, a Batman cameo that never comes, and Two-Face in The Dark Knight.
The Doctor of Podcasting, Chris Stachiw, is joined by Bryan Renfro of Movie Meltdown for this crossover between The Kulturecast and Movie Meltdown, recorded after the film's October 23 theatrical release.
The Kulturecast is a film and culture podcast from Weirding Way Media, hosted by Chris Stachiw, the Doctor of Podcasting, alongside a rotating table of guest co-hosts. Each week digs into where film and culture meet — and how each one bends the other. Now home to sub-feeds including Required Viewing: A 360° Film Study with Dr. David D. Perlmutter.
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